Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. A slight pivot for you guys today. I know I promised you yesterday on yesterday's show that we were going to be starting our lingering questions series today, hitting some of the questions we just didn't have time to answer during the regular season last year. I ran into some issues accessing my film today,

and we had some news to hit.

So slight detour.

We're going to talk about the George Pickens trade,

what that means for the Steelers,

what that means for the Cowboys.

Chat a little bit about the Jags moving on from Gabe Davis today,

and then use those moves to just talk about

past catching groups at large in the NFL. Now that the Cowboys are improved and they've

kind of filled that slot we thought they needed to, which groups are we still really worried

about? Which past catching groups are now the most improved now that the dust has settled for the

most part when it comes to receiver moves? What do we think are the most improved now that the dust has settled for the most part

when it comes to receiver moves. What do we think are the most impactful signings and draft picks

at those past catching spots this offseason? And which are the groups that maybe we are a little

bit more excited to watch this year than we had previously anticipated or thought now that we

kind of get to take a step back and look at those

groups overall. So I dug into all of those questions with Derek Classen. Let's get to that

conversation right now. Not often do you get anything newsworthy NFL-wise, like really newsworthy in the first week of May.

You know, typically this is a quieter time as we get into OTAs, but the football gods have blessed us today with a little bit of news that we're going to chew on.

And we're going to use this as a jumping off point to chat about just receivers and past catching groups in the NFL at large. George Pickens traded to the Cowboys from the Steelers here to dig into that with me and more about wide receivers around the NFL. It is my good buddy, Derek Kasten. Derek, how you feeling, man? Doing good. I almost am shocked. Some of this stuff didn't happen sooner. Usually, you know, maybe teams were also taking their one week break after the draft and being like, all right, you know, let's everyone just settle down. We'll think about shuffling the roster after the fact. But now it's a couple weeks later. And we do have some stuff to talk about. Like I mentioned in the intro, we were going to do our first episode of our lingering questions series today we're going to push that back a week i had some issues

accessing my film this morning and so we didn't want to force that in a way that felt unnecessary but again

we were blessed with a little bit of news let's dig into this this is good timing because last week

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